Stephan Oswacim zag Malko terug naar zijn kamer lopen. Hij sloop naar hem toe en toen hij drie meter achter hem was, bleef hij staan, stak zijn rechterarm met het pistool recht voor zich uit en hield zijn adem in. Twee kogels in zijn rug, gevolgd door twee in zijn hoofd. En dan kon hij eindelijk met een gerust hart vertrekken

Naar onderwerp behoort dit verhaal tot het genre dat een menselijke kolonie en haar moeilijkheden beschrijft op een vreemde planeet en in een vreemde ecologie, de onderling afhankelijke samenhang van de levensvormen in een begrensd gebied. Jason dinAlt, interplanetair beroepsgokker, raakt door zijn talenten verwikkeld in de worsteling van de nederzetting op de planeet Pyrrus tegen zijn omgeving. De worsteling is uitzichtloos, want flora en fauna hebben letterlijk en bewust de krachten gebundeld om de kolonisten uit te roeien, ledereen op Pyrrus wordt vanaf de wieg getraind voor zijn ‘overleving’ tot een ongelooflijke graad van qui-vive en reactiesnelheid; niettemin wordt de mens stap voor stap teruggedrongen. Diep onder de indruk van deze tragedie begint Jason dinAlt een nieuwe strijd: zijn eigen één-mans gevecht om omgeving en bevolking te verzoenen omdat hij heeft ontdekt dat dit de enige en laatste kans is op handhaving

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. English novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Gaskell is known for her biography of Charlotte Bronte. Her works emanate human passions and express reflections on various aspects of society. She wrote for Thomas Hardy's magazine in later life

DOOM – игра, ставшая символом целого поколения. Она объединила вокруг себя огромное количество людей со всего мира, готовых снова и снова яростно вступать в бой и защищать человечество от демонов. В далеком 1993 году выход DOOM стал грандиозным событием в мире видеоигр, и новость об этом распространилась далеко за пределы геймерского сообщества. Так сформировался феномен DOOM. В чем же его уникальность? Книга Дэна Пинчбека – блестящий анализ того, каким образом Джону Кармаку и Джону Ромеро удалось создать настолько успешный хит и стать отцами нового жанра видеоигр.В формате PDF A4 сохранён издательский дизайн

Они были созданиями, подобными фантастическим порождениям бездны ада, — демоны, зомби, огнедышащие чудовища, слишком похожие на кошмарный бред, чтобы существовать в реальности. И тем не менее они были реальностью. Капрал Флинн Таггарт, столкнувшийся с неисчислимыми полчищами пришельцев. Как оказалось, это было только началом. Пока Таггарт противостоял нашествию вдали от родной планеты, пришельцы обосновались на самой Земле, которой теперь предстоит превратиться в поле боя. Враги должны быть уничтожены, и сделать это может только «Флай Тагг» и горстка его соратников. Однако…

Гавайи — последний форпост цивилизации на Земле захвачен бесами, предателями, и кошмарными созданиями прямо из ада. Человечество кажется, обречено на кровавый финал. Затем Гавайи получают сообщение от союзников утверждающие, что они на нашей стороне. Наш последний шанс: установить контакт. Единственный человек, для данной работы — капрал Флинн Таггарт, Корпус морской пехоты США — «Флай» для своих. Он вел борьбу против демонов, когда они проникли через врата на базе Фобоса. Теперь Флаю придется выполнить более сложное задание: вернуться на Фобос — и проложить себе путь через демонов, чтобы связаться с человечеством ради спасения…

Когда первые люди высадились на Фобосе, эти ворота уже были там... Тяжелые, неподатливые, выглядевшие совершенно чуждыми для землян, они в течение двадцати лет оставались лишь безмолвным памятником, надежно хранящим тайны своих создателей. Но наступил день, и ворота ожили... Капрал морской пехоты Флинн Таггарт, личный номер 888 — 23-9912, был одним из лучших бойцов двадцатого века. Судьба забросила его на Марс, а вернее сказать, в ад, и ему не оставалось ничего другого, как драться, защищая человечество

Madison Spencer, the liveliest and snarkiest dead girl in the universe, continues the afterlife adventure begun in Chuck Palahniuk’s bestseller Damned. Just as that novel brought us a brilliant Hell that only he could imagine, Doomed is a dark and twisted apocalyptic vision from this provocative storyteller.The bestselling Damned chronicled Madison’s journey across the unspeakable (and really gross) landscape of the afterlife to confront the Devil himself. But her story isn’t over yet. In a series of electronic dispatches from the Great Beyond, Doomed describes the ultimate showdown between Good and Evil. After a Halloween ritual gone awry, Madison finds herself trapped in Purgatory—or, as mortals like you and I know it, Earth. She can see and hear every detail of the world she left behind, yet she’s invisible to everyone who’s still alive. Not only do people look right through her, they walk right through her as well. The upside is that, no longer subject to physical limitations, she can pass through doors and walls. Her first stop is her parents’ luxurious apartment, where she encounters the ghost of her long-deceased grandmother. For Madison, the encounter triggers memories of the awful summer she spent upstate with Nana Minnie and her grandfather, Papadaddy. As she revisits the painful truth of what transpired over those months (including a disturbing and finally fatal meeting in a rest stop’s fetid men’s room, in which . . . well, never mind), her saga of eternal damnation takes on a new and sinister meaning. Satan has had Madison in his sights from the very beginning: through her and her narcissistic celebrity parents, he plans to engineer an era of eternal damnation. For everyone. Once again, our unconventional but plucky heroine must face her fears and gather her wits for the battle of a lifetime. Dante Alighieri, watch your back; Chuck Palahniuk is gaining on you

At a remote site in Minnesota, filmmaker Kurt Carpenter has built a secure compound and invited a select group of people to bunker down until the worst is over. The world into which they re-emerge is like nothing they’ve ever seen. At first they think they’re the only ones left. But they soon find out how wrong they are. In the wasteland of what used to be America, their battle to survive is only just beginning

This new book by Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning author Connie Willis (Lincoln's Dreams) is an intelligent and satisfying blend of classic science fiction and historical reconstruction. Kivrin, a history student at Oxford in 2048, travels back in time to a 14th-century English village, despite a host of misgivings on the part of her unofficial tutor. When the technician responsible for the procedure falls prey to a 21st-century epidemic, he accidentally sends Kivrin back not to 1320 but to 1348 — right into the path of the Black Death. Unaware at first of the error, Kivrin becomes deeply involved in the life of the family that takes her in. But before long she learns the truth and comes face to face with the horrible, unending suffering of the plague that would wipe out half the population of Europe. Meanwhile, back in the future, modern science shows itself infinitely superior in its response to epidemics, but human nature evidences no similar evolution, and scapegoating is still alive and well in a campaign against "infected foreigners." This book finds villains and heroes in all ages, and love, too, which Kivrin hears in the revealing and quietly touching deathbed confession of a village priest. (Publishers Weekly) Won Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1992 Won Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1993

Using the American tradition of freedom of religion as a smoke screen, a cultist group had gone mad in the streets of San Francisco. People were being slaughtered in the name of a bizarre new sacrilege, The Universal Devotees. Killings were random, senseless... Mack Bolan quickly identified the devil incarnate — Nguyen Van Minh, a stateless Asian refugee who had mastered mind-control on a massive scale. Bolan smelled KGB. Evidence grew that the killer creed was a Soviet weapon for wholesale butchery. When a senators lovely young daughter was sucked into its ranks, The Executioner launched the one deadly brand of combat — firestorms of glory that scorch yet revive the earth — that could crush Minhs blasphemy at its accursed heart

Step 1 - Travel to a different dimension on verge of destruction Step 2 - Save dimension from doomsday event Step 3 - Find the Wayfarer woman to take back so their dimension stabilizes Step 4 - Bind Wayfarer woman to you for bonus powers and abilities Step 5 - Get paid and then go back to Step 1

It was the weapon to end all weapons: the doomsday device. A huge nuclear bomb so powerful that it could envelop the entire planet in a cloud of radioactive dust, and bring about instant extinction. This is the untold story of the Cold War’s most insane plan, the men behind it and how it nearly happened. It is also the history of humanity’s nightmare vision of a superweapon, showing how popular culture – from the stories of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne to films such as Planet of the Apes, Mad Max and Dr Strangelove itself – has both shaped and reflected our darkest dreams

DOON… Veronica doesn't think she's going crazy. But why can't anyone else see the mysterious blond boy who keeps popping up wherever she goes? When her best friend, Mackenna, invites her to spend the summer in Scotland, Veronica jumps at the opportunity to leave her complicated life behind for a few months. But the Scottish countryside holds other plans. Not only has the imaginary kilted boy followed her to Alloway, she and Mackenna uncover a strange set of rings and a very unnerving letter from Mackenna's great aunt—and when the girls test the instructions Aunt Gracie left behind, they find themselves transported to a land that defies explanation. Doon seems like a real-life fairy tale, complete with one prince who has eyes for Mackenna and another who looks suspiciously like the boy from Veronica's daydreams. But Doon has a dark underbelly as well. The two girls could have everything they've longed for...or they could end up breaking an enchantment and find themselves trapped in a world that has become a nightmare

When orchid nurse Theodore Horstmann leaves the brownstone indefinitely to tend to his sick mother, Nero Wolfe goes out — in the snow and on foot — into the raging wilds of Westchester to find a replacement. He and Archie find a corpse in the greenhouse, as well

For the right man, all doors are open… Mike Mackenzie is a self-made man with too much time on his hands and a bit of the devil in his soul. He is looking for something to liven up the days and perhaps give new meaning to his existence. A chance encounter at an art auction offers him the opportunity to do just that as he settles on a plot to commit a 'perfect crime'. He intends to rip-off one of the most high-profile targets in the capital – the National Gallery of Scotland. So, together with two close friends from the art world, he devises a plan to a lift some of the most valuable artwork around. But of course, the real trick is to rob the place for all its worth whilst persuading the world that no crime was ever committed. But soon after he enters the dark waters of the criminal underworld he realises that it's very easy to drown…